Time based rather than contact based notifications

[Upayavira]

My scenario is that there are multiple people responsible, at different 
times, for various services.

At present, I have to manage this by specifying the timeperiod for each 
contact.

I'd rather associate people with timeperiods, rather than timeperiods 
with people. So, I'd like to say:

Time              Main Contact          Secondary Contact      
Mon, 9am-5pm      Peter                 Jim
Mon, 5pm-Tue 9am  Jim                   Sue
Tue 9am-5pm       Sue                   William
etc, etc, etc.

This way, I have a single file that shows me who's on duty when. With 
the current setup, I could easily end up with two people on duty at the 
same time, or worse - no-one on duty, simply by an error in the details 
I enter.

I know I could achieve the above by writing a script to generate the 
Nagios config files from a file format such as the one above, but is 
there any other way I can achieve this?

Thanks in advance.

Upayavira




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